How is one to start a Friday email the day after the terrible shootings in New Zealand? Well, I guess by acknowledging the shootings, but affirming our shared anger and angst caused by the killings. But we should also look clearly at the ways these shootings are of a piece with the (often white) nationalism […]
Welcome to Friday. Wee hoo! First, I want to acknowledge that today is International Women’s Day. As I was thinking about this, I thought about a couple of the leaders of this department—Ann Gill and Sue Pendell. Both served as chair of the department, with Ann going on to serve as Dean of the College […]
Welcome to March! As is the way with March, we open the month with a beautiful morning but will likely go to bed to the beginnings of a solid March snowstorm. Ah Colorado! All sorts of things to talk about this week. Liz has a new essay “Complaints about technology as a resource for identity-work” […]
On Friday, April 5, the 4th annual ACT Human Rights Film Festival returns to Fort Collins for a 9-day run, closing the evening of Saturday, April 13. This year’s festival will open and close at the Lory Student Center Theatre on the campus of Colorado State University with films that celebrate resilience and the human […]
Folks: Happy (super cold) Friday. I don’t know how all of you feel about the cold, but I can tell you that Panda would rather it were warmer. Our walks are mercifully short! A couple of notes this week. Katie G has accepted an invitation to be a member of a panel discussing Justice Ginsburg’s […]
FORT COLLINS, CO — The Department of Communication Studies is pleased to announce this year’s Gravlee Lecturer, Daena J. Goldsmith, professor of rhetoric and media studies at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. The 2019 lecture, titled “Personal and Political: Blogging Motherhood and Autism,” will be held in the Lory Student Center Theater, Wednesday, […]
Happy Friday folks, on this first day of February. Amazing, right? January is done. We start the shortest month of the year. The days are getting longer. Hey, cool stuff to share with you this week. Meara just received a $34,000 grant from CSU’s Center for Healthy Aging to promote innovative research on aging and […]
Folks: Happy Friday and happy end of the first week of classes. Was MLK day really just five days ago? Hooftah! Well I hope the first week was wonderful. I like to report on a regular basis about how much we teach, how full our classes are and the like. As of this morning, we […]
1/16/19 Folks: I hope all is well in the midst of this epic winter break! Here is a Friday email even if it isn’t Friday. Mostly I want to touch base as we start the semester. We have, as we always do, lots on tap for this spring semester. On January 21, the Monday before […]
I write to you from the airport in Pasco WA. I spent the week with my father including a trip up to Spokane to go to thrift stores, eat in different restaurants, and to revel in the austere beauty of the Palouse country. Steeply rolling hills, groomed from harvesting this year’s crop of wheat and […]
